Oh, this would be too, too good. Before we get to the news, though, a quick spoiler warning. If you haven't seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and you're planning to, you're not going want to read the rest of this article. Got it? Good.

There seems to be a bit of contention over whether the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Disney Infinity game spoils a pretty big question mark for those who have seen the film and wondered about the backstory of a particular lead character. Various websites (and YouTube commenters) have been reporting that at a certain point in the game, when one is fighting (emo) bad guy Kylo Ren, it sounds as if Ren yells out "face me," followed by "cousin."

In the video some have been pointing to, the player is using Rey to fight Ren. This, of course, leads people to believe that Force Awakens heroine Rey is actually Ren's cousin, which would then make her Luke Skywalker's daughter. Right?

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We're not going to speculate on Rey or what relationship she might have to Han, Leia, Luke, Chewie, BB-8, or whoeverthat's an entirely new (and much longer) article. We will, however, point to a report from Kotaku that negates all of this speculation with a simple test: What does Kylo Ren say in the game when you aren't using Rey to fight him?

As it turns out, the character yells out "face me" during the fight when he wants you to do just that: Stand off against the sith wannabe. He yells "curses," not "cousin," when you hurt him. Time it right, and you can get him to say "curses" right after "face me" which, to some, sounds like he's saying "face me, cousin."

The problem being, of course, that you can get him to do just that when you're fighting him with a character that isn't Rey. So, either Kylo Ren has a lot of cousins and The Force Awakens just got a lot, lot stranger, or he isn't actually yelling out any kind of family reference at all (no matter how much some people swear he is).

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David Murphy got his first real taste of technology journalism when he arrived at PC Magazine as an intern in 2005. A three-month gig turned to six months, six months turned to occasional freelance assignments, and he later rejoined his tech-loving, mostly New York-based friends as one of PCMag.com's news contributors.
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